![]() Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress.Īll they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep the by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. ![]() When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. He’s a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift. Unless the “others” are of the female persuasion. Nick Santiago doesn’t play well with others. Just when things can’t get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor…who turns up murdered. ![]() ![]() And those hallucinations she’s diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they’re clairvoyant visions. ![]()
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Born a slave of African parents, he was set free by his predecessor, Sir Stephen Wythe, who raised him and trained him in the magical arts as a kind of experiment. Most thaumaturges agree that Zacharias Wythe is a most unsuitable Sorcerer Royal. Set in an alternate, magical England during the Napoleonic Wars, Cho’s debut novel is at once a comedy of manners and a sharp metacomment concerning racism and misogyny in the fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Some critics argued men should not try to predict the weather, because it was God’s province.” Also, weather predictions had a poor record. Consider, this was a time when lightning was barely understood, tornadoes not at all. It may seem strange to us today, but at the time, its founding was controversial. In the United States it began under the auspices of the U.S. ![]() ![]() We do not generally think about it, but all of our institutions had a beginning, including the weather service. 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